Today was rough, well at least this morning was. We all went to bed late last night and not to mention it was superrrrr hot in the dorms last night. I have seriously never been that hot in my life, I was just laying on top of my bed wishing I could stop sweating. We don't have AC here and we only have one window in our room that we always keep open, and last night there wasn't a breeze. For all you JMU people, it's like living in the Village with no fans. Not fun. The two medical classes had two conferences to attend, starting at 9:30 am this morning, each lasting an hour and a half. I think we were all struggling a little bit to stay awake and pay attention because not only were we tired, but the university is almost hotter than the dorm, which is hard to imagine. So with that combination, it was a difficult morning. The presenters were really nice and were talking about natural medicine, which is a huge part of the medical culture here. It was just a little difficult to follow their presentations because they were using very high vocabulary in Spanish aka words that we don't even know in English, but we managed to get through the day. It was an interesting topic to say the least, just a little hard to follow.
After having lunch at the campus (yay!), we had a surprise afternoon of "sports" set up for us and we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into! We had about a 30 minute bus ride and pulled up to this random house. It was such a sweet house, there was a huge patio, yard, and pool with an amazing view of the city. Our afternoon was filled with silly games and competitions, it felt a little like field day! We all looked so silly, but it was so much fun to have an afternoon to be crazy, let loose, and just have some fun. We were there for about 3 hours and then headed back to the residence to hang out until dinner! Nothing too much going on tonight, half of our group has presentations tomorrow so a lot of people are working on finishing those up!
I cannot believe that I have been here for almost a month and that most of our group leaves to go back to America on Sunday! It is crazy how this last week of classes is flying by and tomorrow is Thursday. My friend and I were saying how fast time is going by, it is blowing my mind! I will definitely be ready to come home in 2 and a half weeks. I am loving it here and learning so much, but I have learned there is nothing like home! It will be nice to have a change in routine this coming Sunday with moving into a host family and then starting my internship at the school next week. I am looking forward to it being a little more relaxed and chill time with a smaller group of people. It will also be so exciting to be working in the school with a speech pathologist. I really don't know what I will be doing or have many expectations for it, but I am just really excited to be doing something that I know I love and am passionate about. And being able to do it in another language that I absolutely love learning is literally my dream. Someone once asked me what my dream job would be and after thinking about it, I think it would be something like what I am going to be doing next week at the special education school, I would love to work as a speech-patholigst with Spanish speaking kiddos.
As this week is coming to a close, it is getting super crazy! Tomorrow night we are going to a restaurant to have tapas, of course, and then we are watching the Flamenco dancing which should be really exciting! It is also Ally's birthday tomorrow, so we'll probably be going out for a little bit after the Flamenco. Friday we have our presentations at 10 am (yuck) and then we have a farewell lunch, which should be really nice. We have all of Friday night and then all day Saturday for free time and then people who aren't staying for the extension leave Sunday at 5 am (I'm pretty sure they are staying up all night). It will be a busy couple days, but I know they will be so much fun! Now that I've written a novel, I should probably practice my presentation a little bit for Friday! Adios!
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